November/December 2002

Cover Story: Water for Profit

By Jon R. Luoma

Corporate-managed waterworks were supposed to save money and improve services. But as Atlanta and other cities around the world are finding out, water and profits don't always mix.

South Africa's Driest Season

By Jon Jeter

South Africa's attempt to privatize has led to clean drinking water for those who can afford it, and cholera for those who cannot.

Jailhouse Talk

By Laura Fraser

Part whistle-blower, part social worker, radio host Ray Hill is a gay ex-con whose Prison Show keeps the incarcerated (and their families) together.

The Land of the Setting Sun



Photo Essay By Peter Granser

Text by Bill Donahue

Who ain't gonna play Sun City? Not these residents of the nation's first seniors-only community.

Lie Detector Roulette

By Brendan I. Koerner

Polygraphs are barred from courts and private workplaces. So why are the careers of cops and federal employees being permanently derailed by dubious science?

The New Range Wars

By Verlyn Klinkenborg

Coalbed methane fever has hit. Can Wyoming's Powder River Basin survive?

Editor's Note

Masthead

Contributors

Backtalk

OUTFRONT

Where there's smoke, there's pork; NIH loyalty oaths; leave no child unrecruited; Ollie's high seas follies

EXHIBIT

Balls-out doggies; higher power bars; in the pink

POWER PLAYS

A Confederacy of Cronies

By George Packer

In the Bush boardroom, democracy is not a bottom-line value.

THE SLANT



Operation Constant Vigilance



By Ian Frazier

Unpatriotic reader, beware.

THE COMMONS

Home Field Advantage

By Sue Halpern

In Green Bay, the cheeseheads own the team.

NOTEBOOK

Hard-Core Philanthropist

By Jay Cheshes

The NGO days and boogie nights of a porn philanthropist.

EXPOSURE



Tough Love


Pit bulls and junkies. Don't worry, it's a good thing.

MEDIA JONES

Hunger in the Heartland; Aimee Mann on the economics of being oh-so-indie; any book club that would have you...; plus more book, music, and film reviews

P.S.

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Cartoon by David Fullarton